In the presence of the Creator : Isaac Newton and his times
Christianson, Gale E. [illusrtations, David Loggan, Godfrey Kneller, Thomas Murray, Peter Blondeau, Charles Jervas, James Thornhill, Thomas Gibson, Bernard Francke, John Vanderbank, Louis Francois Roubilac]
ISBN 10: 0029051908 ISBN 13: 9780029051900
Published by New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1984., 1984
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[1st ed., 1st printing] ; xv, 623 p., [16] p. of plates : illustrated ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0029051908; 9780029051900 LCCN: 83-49211 ; OCLC: 10375094 ; LC: QC16.N7; Dewey: 530/.092/4 ; brown cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, lab el, date due, pocket ; Contents: Inside a quart pot -- Of giants and dwarfs -- The transit of genius -- A movable feast -- A kinde of nothinge -- Some strangeness in the proportion -- The killing ground -- "I desire to withdraw" -- The treasures of darkness -- Heretic : sotto voce -- A pitfall in Eden -- The most perfect mechanic of all -- "Go your way, and sin no more" -- Cul-de-sac -- A morality play -- "Your very loving unkle" -- Sir Isaac -- The devil's banter -- "Second inventors count for nothing" -- "They could not get me to yield" -- Infinity. ; VG. Seller Inventory # 5377
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A biography of Newton probes the scientist's reclusive personality, recreates the turbulent intellectual atmosphere of seventeenth-century Europe, and lucidly describes Newton's epoch-making discoveries in physics, optics, and astronomy
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Title: In the presence of the Creator : Isaac ...
Publisher: New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1984.
Publication Date: 1984
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